2023 Legislative Priorities
January 9, 2023
Growing Food Justice Across Washington
January 22, 2020
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Northwest Harvest believes that ending hunger means fighting its root cause—poverty. To this end, we advocate for public policies that 1) promote access to nutritious food, 2) help those who struggle to meet their basic needs, and 3) support budgets that restore our basic safety net with fair and sustainable revenue.
Northwest Harvest advocates for state and federal policies to increase access to food, housing, health care, and economic stability.
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2023 Legislative Agenda
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated food insecurity across our state, and Washington’s response by statewide agencies was swift. But the state’s gap analysis must and can be more effective with local action. Local hunger tasks forces include trusted messengers for diverse populations and can analyze and inform the state’s analysis with a community-driven, equity focused lens; local hunger task forces can use this information to inform their existing work closing gaps quickly and effectively.
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SNAP is a first line of defense against hunger. By helping people buy the food they need, SNAP fuels local economies and is a safety net to help people through tough times. Budget cuts to SNAP hurt our communities and threaten to increase hunger, poverty, and poor health for all of us.
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